Anita Baker net worth

Net Worth: $80 Million

About Anita Baker

It has been claimed that the total size of Anita Baker net worth is as high as 80 million dollars. She is known as a jazz singer as well as a soul musician. She has earned a huge part of her net worth because of her involvement into music, which has also been awarded with many nominations and awards, such as 8 Grammy awards. She has released 6 albums, sales of which also added up a lot to the overall sum of Anita Baker net worth. Four albums out of those 6 went on to be certified platinum. Moreover, two others were certified as gold.

In the end of the 1970s, Anita Baker began her career as a professional singer when she joined the group called “Chapter 8”. In 1983, the first album of the singer was released called “The Songstress”. In 1986, she became even more popular when she released an album called “Rapture”. This album was certified as platinum and the sales of it have added up a lot of revenues to the total estimate of Anita Baker net worth, as well. In this album, a single called “Sweet Love” was included which became a winner of a Grammy award.

The singer was born in Toledo, Ohio, in 1958.

When she was 2 years old, her mother stopped taking care of her and Anita Baker since that time grew up in a care of her foster family from Michigan. When she was 12 years old, Anita Baker’s foster parents passed away and since that time, she was raised by her foster sister. When she was 16 years old, Anita Baker was already a huge star on the Detroit night clubs music stage, where he appeared as an RnB singer. During one of these appearances, Anita Baker was noticed by David Washington, who was a member in the band called “Chapter 8”. Later, she also became a member of this band.

In the 1980s as 1990s, Anita Baker became a huge star. During this time Anita Baker released a couple of her best hits, such as “Giving You The Best That I Got”, “Sweet Love” and “Body and Soul”. In 1996, after touring, Anita Baker decided to stop her career as a musician for some time. However, in 2000 she came back to the music industry, which continued to increase Anita Baker net worth. In the period of 1988-2007, she was married to Walter Bridgeforth, Jr., with whom she has two sons. Currently, Anita Baker is known to be living in Grosse Pointe, Michigan.